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Hollywood news outlet Deadline reported that the veteran actor, a native New Yorker, was found dead Saturday in his home in The Bronx.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Wow, this thing is dead quiet, I thought; and why is my inner voice shouting?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Infantino’s presidency might not be dead, but it is surely in critical condition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Her attitude is essentially that, from her perspective, she’ll be dead, so it won’t be her problem, and I can “figure it out.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Hey, you know how you told me about what you do over there in your wood? That stuff about… helping dead animal ghosts?”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Now the creature represents extinction itself—you can’t get deader than a dodo.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
As the sun begins to disappear over the Puerto Rican palms Wednesday, Allenby manages to work an approach—into the breeze off the Caribbean coast, from a lie that’s deader than dead—onto the 11th green.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 20, 2020
In 2014, England lost to Italy and Uruguay before drawing 0-0 with Concacaf’s Costa Rica in an episode of a deadness that felt deader than dead.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2018
It’s been pulled, the original page deader than a healthcare.gov login.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2013
History is deader than Laika the space dog.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Los Angeles has one of the deadest downtowns in the world, according to a new survey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
In 1873, a correspondent to this journal fretted, “Science is all but dead in England … perhaps deadest of all at our Universities.”
From Nature ● Feb. 18, 2019
The worst possible situation — the deadest, most hostile crowd — I don’t care.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
And Stone guarantees that it’s a beautifully shot reality, crisply realized even in the darkest, deadest hours of night.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2016
I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
